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MOB BURNS TWO NEGROES.; First Hangs Them to Goddess of Liberty In Springfield, Mo.

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April 15, 1906,

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 14. -- A mob of several hundred persons broke into the county jail here to-night, dragged out two negroes charged with attacking a white girl named Mabel Edwards last night, hanged them to the Goddess of Liberty in the Public Square, and burned them to death in the presence of more than 3,000 persons, who cheered the performance.

April 15, 1906

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